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Forum: Can we hire tradies without paying SM?

  • 23/05/2025
  • Author Jimmy-T

Forum: Can you hire a gardener directly? Advice needed on collective sale. Chair hates new air-con. Owners add a room. Drying carpets after upstairs fire.

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    Forum: Fire safety is a burning issue in old strata

    • 30/01/2025
    • Author Jimmy-T

    The cost of fire safety, the definition of stratum, limits on a compulsory strata manager and a new guide for ACT strata - all in the Forum.

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      Forum: No fire checks without smokescreens

      • 05/12/2024
      • Author Jimmy-T

      Should the same firms that do fire checks be paid to fix the faults they discover? Plus blending levies and loans to pay for major works - all that and…

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        Big and bright ideas meet huge strata challenges

        • 08/08/2024
        • Author Jimmy-T

        By Jimmy Thomson and Sue Williams Black mould built into new homes, fire safety measures ignored and undermined, real estate marketers (rather than town planners) shaping our cities – these…

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          Forum: Are no-pets by-laws back by stealth?

          • 30/05/2024
          • Author Jimmy-T

          Here’s a blast from the past: A Flatchatter is thinking of buying into a strata villa and has discovered it has a “no pets” by-law. “Weren’t they outlawed after the…

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            Getting all fired up about ebike batteries in flats

            • 07/11/2023
            • Author Jimmy-T

            Charging lithium-ion batteries inside apartments is rapidly becoming a burning issue for strata committees and fireys. It seems a day doesn’t go by without another eBike or electric scooter battery…

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              Forum: Screen doors in the sights of fire experts

              • 26/05/2023
              • Author Jimmy-T

              Is there a nationwide ban on screen doors? That ubiquitous, iconic entrance to so many suburban homes has come under fire from fire protection consultants. Is it, as one Flatchatter…

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                Forum: All fired up over EV safety in strata

                • 21/03/2023
                • Author Jimmy-T

                There’s a bit of a stoush developing in the Forum over the charging of electric cars. If it’s not concerns about exploding batteries and subsequent fires, it’s worries about sneaky…

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                  Forum: One block vetoes majority motion

                  • 23/08/2022
                  • Author Jimmy-T

                  There’s a storm brewing at a multi-block community scheme where the committee is at odds with its secretary, the secretary sends a proxy to meetings and the strata manager seems…

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                    Focus on defects and disasters, pocket $100

                    • 03/05/2022
                    • Author Jimmy-T

                    Want to add to academics’ collective knowledge about living in strata and all the  … um .. challenges it presents, and score a couple of $50 vouchers for doing so?…

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                      Burning questions about fire inspections answered

                      • 21/03/2022
                      • Author Jimmy-T

                      Recently, there have been a number of questions about fire safety inspections and measures on the Flat Chat Forum. Last week, one of our Flatchatters, an accredited Fire Safety Practitioner,…

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                        Lannock to manage NSW cladding loans

                        • 28/02/2022
                        • Author Jimmy-T

                        The NSW Government has appointed long-time Flat Chat supporter Lannock Strata Finance to manage the state’s Project Remediate interest-free loans, intended to help owners corporations with the cost of rectifying…

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